Evening Attire Stakes
Ungraded stakes race | |
Location | Aqueduct Racetrack Queens, New York, United States |
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Inaugurated | 1902 |
Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
Website | www |
Race information | |
Distance | 1+1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) |
Surface | Dirt |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Three-year-olds and up |
Weight | Handicap |
Purse | $100,000 Added |
The race is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. It was called the Aqueduct Handicap, but beginning in 2009, the name was changed to the Evening Attire Stakes in honor of the great grey gelding Evening Attire. He raced until he was 10 years old, retiring in 2008. The race is an ungraded stakes event run on dirt at a distance of 1+1⁄16 miles, it is open to horses three years old and up.
On November 28, 2007, this Grade III stakes race was downgraded to an ungraded stakes by the American Graded Stakes Committee.
Originally named for the racetrack where the inaugural race took place in 1902, until recently, it was mostly run on Labor Day but now is held in January. (It was run in late February in 2015.) The race did not take place from 1910 through 1916, 1924, 1956 through 1958, 1969 through 1972, 1974–1975, and in 1979. The 2010 edition marked its 91st running.
In 1961, the Aqueduct Handicap was run at Belmont Park.
The race was renamed the Aqueduct Stakes from 1962 to 1965 and in 1967 and 1968. In 1973 it was restricted to 2-year-old horses and was won by Cannonade who went on to win the 1974 Kentucky Derby.
On January 17, 2009 it was run as the Evening Attire Stakes.
The race's distance has been altered four times:
- 1+5⁄16 miles : 1920 through 1924
- 1+1⁄8 miles : 1917 through 1919, 1926 through 1932, and from 1961 through 1973
- 1 mile : 1976
- 1+1⁄16 miles : 1977 to present
Winners of the Evening Attire Stakes since 1959[]
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | North Slope | 5 | Junior Alvarado | Kiaran McLaughlin | Godolphin Racing | 1:45.45 |
2014 | Long River | 4 | Irad Ortiz Jr. | Kiaran McLaughlin | Darley Stable | 1:44.71 |
2013 | Last Gunfighter | 4 | Irad Ortiz Jr. | Chad C. Brown | John D. Gunther | 1:43.54 |
2012 | Redding Colliery | 6 | Alan Garcia | Kiaran McLaughlin | Mrs. Fitriani Hay | 1:43.05 |
2011 | Heart Butte | 4 | Todd Pletcher | Claude Paul | 1:46.08 | |
2010 | 5 | Todd Pletcher | Paul Pompa Jr. | 1:42.94 | ||
2009 | 4 | Ramon A. Dominguez | Thomas Albertrani | Darley Stable | 1:43.81 | |
2008 | 6 | Alan Garcia | Kiaran McLaughlin | Alvin D. Haynes | 1:43.25 | |
2007 | 6 | Ramon A. Dominguez | Richard E. Dutrow Jr. | Edward P. Evans | 1:43.66 | |
2006 | 5 | C. R. McGaughey III | Phipps Stable | 1:44.56 | ||
2005 | 8 | Jose Espinoza | Steven Kappes | B. Seinfeld & E. Dodson | 1:44.80 | |
2004 | 5 | Aaron Gryder | Kiaran McLaughlin | West Point Stable | 1:42.00 | |
2003 | 5 | Michael Luzzi | James A. Jerkens | Berkshire Stud et al. | 1:44.00 | |
2002 | Evening Attire | 4 | Shaun Bridgmohan | Grant, Grant, Kelly | 1:42.60 | |
2001 | 7 | Joe Bravo | John Peace | 1:42.20 | ||
2000 | 6 | Cornelio Velásquez | Live Oak Plantation | 1:44.40 | ||
1999 | Mr. Sinatra | 5 | Aaron Gryder | 1:43.11 | ||
1998 | 5 | Aaron Gryder | Team Valor | 1:42.48 | ||
1997 | 5 | Jorge Chavez | Robert Perez | 1:43.45 | ||
1996 | 4 | Michael Luzzi | 1:43.89 | |||
1995 | 6 | Jorge Chavez | John Parisella | 1:41.13 | ||
1994 | As Indicated | 4 | Robbie Davis | Heatherwood Farm | 1:45.60 | |
1993 | 6 | John Velazquez | Jewel E Stable | 1:44.40 | ||
1992 | 5 | D. Wayne Lukas | Leonard D. Mathis | 1:43.60 | ||
1991 | 4 | Jerry D. Bailey | D. Wayne Lukas | Edward A. Cox Jr. | 1:43.40 | |
1990 | 5 | Ángel Cordero Jr. | Richard O'Connell | Cap-Rus Stable | 1:44.80 | |
1989 | 6 | Herb McCauley | Winbound Farms | 1:42.80 | ||
1988 | 4 | D. Wayne Lukas | Eugene V. Klein | 1:45.20 | ||
1987 | King's Swan | 7 | José A. Santos | Richard E. Dutrow Sr. | Alvin Akman | 1:41.80 |
1986 | 5 | Michael Venezia | Four Fifths Stable | 1:43.80 | ||
1985 | 4 | Ángel Cordero Jr. | John Parisella | Theodore M. Sabarese | 1:42.60 | |
1984 | 5 | Jean-Luc Samyn | Albert Davis | 1:43.40 | ||
1983 | 4 | Victor Molina | 1:42.40 | |||
1982 | 5 | Ángel Cordero Jr. | John A. Franks | 1:48.40 | ||
1981 | 4 | Jeffrey Fell | Stanley M. Hough | Malcolm H. Winfield | 1:44.60 | |
1980 | 5 | Jimmy Miranda | Bette S. Karlinsky | 1:44.80 | ||
1978 | 5 | Jacinto Vásquez | William Boland | Domino Stable | 1:43.80 | |
1977 | Magnetizer | 4 | H. Allen Jerkens | 1:45.40 | ||
1976 | 5 | Ron Turcotte | Deronjo Stable | 1:38.80 | ||
1973 | Cannonade | 2 | Pete D. Anderson | Woody Stephens | John M. Olin | 1:51.60 |
1968 | Damascus | 4 | Braulio Baeza | Frank Y. Whiteley Jr. | Edith W. Bancroft | 1:48.40 |
1967 | Damascus | 3 | Bill Shoemaker | Frank Y. Whiteley Jr. | Edith W. Bancroft | 1:48.20 |
1966 | Tom Rolfe | 4 | Bill Shoemaker | Frank Y. Whiteley Jr. | Powhatan Stable | 1:52.20 |
1965 | 4 | Bobby Ussery | John M. Gaver Sr. | Greentree Stable | 1:49.00 | |
1964 | Kelso | 7 | Ismael Valenzuela | Carl Hanford | Bohemia Stable | 1:48.60 |
1963 | Kelso | 6 | Ismael Valenzuela | Carl Hanford | Bohemia Stable | 1:49.80 |
1962 | 4 | Braulio Baeza | Fred W. Hooper | 1:48.80 | ||
1961 | Tompion | 4 | John L. Rotz | Robert L. Wheeler | C. V. Whitney | 1:47.40 |
1960 | Bald Eagle | 5 | Manuel Ycaza | Woody Stephens | Cain Hoy Stable | 1:34.80 |
1959 | Hillsdale | 4 | Clarence Whitted Smith | 1:36.40 |
Earlier winners[]
- 1955 – Icarian
- 1954 – Crash Drive
- 1953 – First Aid
- 1952 – Bryan G.
- 1951 – Bryan G.
- 1950 – Wine List
- 1949 – Wine List
- 1948 – Stymie
- 1947 – Stymie
- 1946 – Coincidence
- 1945 – New Moon
- 1944 – Alex Barth
- 1943 – With Regards
- 1942 – Pictor
- 1941 – Ponty
- 1940 – War Dog
- 1939 – Volitant
- 1938 – Isolater
- 1937 – Caballero II
- 1936 – Action
- 1935 – Good Gamble
- 1934 – Coequel
- 1933 – Golden Way
- 1932 –
- 1931 – Curate
- 1930 – Black Mammy
- 1929 – Sun Beau
- 1928 – Chance Play
- 1927 – Black Maria
- 1926 – Black Maria
- 1925 – Dazzler
- 1923 – My Play
- 1922 – Prince James
- 1921 – Damask
- 1920 – John P. Grier
- 1919 – Lucullite
- 1918 – Corn Tassel
- 1917 – Roamer
- 1909 – Firestone
- 1908 – Monfort
- 1907 – Brookdale Bymph
- 1906 – Rye
- 1905 – Bedouin
- 1904 – Israelite
- 1903 – Wild Thyme
- 1902 – Glenwater
References[]
- Open mile category horse races
- Previously graded stakes races in the United States
- Horse races in New York City
- Recurring sporting events established in 1902
- Sports in Queens, New York
- Aqueduct Racetrack
- 1902 establishments in New York City